Plan 9 (2015)

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Blistering performances.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I laughed when someone else wrote a review acting like this was some serious movie that needed this or that or whatever. Come on! It was fun! I gave it a 10 to offset all the wannabe film critics with no souls. A movie worth seeing? yes! Boobs, butts, guns and stupid references to other movies. How can you not gid that?

Plan 9 is set in Nilbog, a town invaded by aliens. It begins with Mister Lobo playing Criswell, the kiss-curled real-life American psychic (1907-1982), whose mental powers are completely ignored here. Equally, the actor couldn't look less like Crisswell. What we get is the kind of OTT performance that lets you know exactly the style the makers of this remake of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)' (often labelled the worst film ever made) are embracing. There are some pleasing nods to the original of course. The bereaved gentleman played by Bela Lugosi hangs himself whilst wearing a Halloween Dracula cape, Lucy (Sarah Eshleman) playfully dangles a light-shade over a miniature town model, echoing the hub-cap spaceships in Ed Wood's project.'Night of the Living Dead (1968)' and 'The Fog (1980)' are also referenced, as are scenes from other well-known horror films.For me, 'Plan 9' is guilty of the same thing as the film that inspired it: it is a little boring. Not so bad it is good, not so bad it is bad, it just continues long past the point the audience cares. A cheap, campy film with often (deliberately?) cardboard performances and lacklustre monsters, encompassed in a pulpy sci-fi concept, is only entertaining for a limited time before the audience want something more 'solid' to invest in. Taken as it is, it might well be best watched with friends, over pizza and other occasional distractions.

This film rated 6.3 when watched, 2 days later I see its 4.7 The film is very annoying on a number of reasons - it jumps around in timelines unclearly, the acting is not natural, the characters do not relate together on a credible scale and the whole story is unfinished without imparting viewer satisfaction or completion.It smacks of a teenage splatter movie where they all enter the darkened room without turning the light on and get slaughtered one by one...it was not trying to be, but that was the result.It didn't achieve on an intellectual scale what they were trying to do, and the entertainment factor was missing too. Just annoying really.

Cult films, just like music, are made by people that have no clue what they're doing, but have a strong vision and giving it 100%. Trying to do something badly, unfortunately doesn't yield the same result. And that's where Plan 9 comes in. It's not nerdy bad, which obviously works sometimes - it's just plain boring bad. Scenes are too long, lit badly (not bad enough to be funny mind you) and although the viewer is introduced to a few quirky characters, there's just no substance to hang on to. There's a lot of over acting mixed with under acting and all things considered, the movie just come across as a "fun" art school project. And not in a good way I might add. A+ for trying tho.